Web Week

Piracy - the reel deal: Researchers at AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania have been tracking recent movies that are being uploaded to file-sharing sites to find out who is responsible.

The shocking conclusion: 77 per cent are genuine copies, not bootlegs, and have been leaked by people working in the movie industry, often just before a DVD version goes on sale.

The study can be downloaded in PDF.

Noodling for Google: Do you have computer programming skills? Google is looking for such people to rewrite the world's information infrastructure and is running a contest to find them.

The Google Code Jam contest opens next week.

Not so flash: The second Auckland flash mob event got hijacked this week, so maybe it's time to call it a day.

Those of us who wondered if it would last aren't surprised that the mother of flash mobs has indeed decided flash mobbing is now dead.

Once upon a time ... It's weird to think that the Galileo spacecraft that finally reached Jupiter this week was launched into space years before most of us had ever heard of the net.

And the folk at Nasa at the time would never have foreseen the coverage now available.

Movie piracy

Google code jam

Is flashmobbing dead?

Nasa's Galileo site